GAME STORY
- Mark Kiszla, Denver Post
- Selena Roberts, New York Times
- Jill Lieber, USA Today
- (tie) Bonnie DeSimone, Chicago Tribune
(tie) Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times
Honorable Mention:
- Daniel Brown, San Jose Mercury News
- Ed Graney, San Diego Union-Tribune
- Sandy McKee, Baltimore Sun
- Ken Murray, Baltimore Sun
- Jeff Shain, Miami Herald
FEATURE STORY
- Jim O’Donnell, Chicago Sun-Times
- Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press
- Richard Sandomir, New York Times
- Selena Roberts, New York Times
- Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star
Honorable Mention:
- Elliott Almond, San Jose Mercury News
- Wayne Coffey, New York Daily News
- Gary D’Amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Ed Hinton, Orlando Sentinel
- Jerry Zgoda, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
NEWS STORY
- Ed Hinton, Jim Leusner and Henry Pierson Curtis, Orlando Sentinel
- Mark Fainaru-Wada and Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle
- (tie) Bob Ford, Philadelphia Inquirer
(tie) Aaron Kuriloff, New Orleans Times-Picayune - Edward Wong, New York Times
Honorable Mention:
- Hal Bodley, USA Today
- Luke Cyphers and Roger Rubin, New York Daily News
- Kevin Paul Dupont, Boston Globe
- Linda Robertson, Miami Herald
- Stephen A. Smith, Philadelphia Inquirer
COLUMNS
- Sally Jenkins, Washington Post
- Rick Morrissey, Chicago Tribune
- Bob Kravitz, Indianapolis Star
- (tie) David Hyde, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
(tie) Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe
Honorable Mention:
- Mark Bradley, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Christine Brennan, USA Today
- Chuck Culpepper, Portland Oregonian
- Rich Hoffman, Philadelphia Daily News
- Steve Hummer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ENTERPRISE REPORTING
- Michael Dobie and Arthur Staple, Newsday
- (tie) Steve Politi, Newark Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.
(tie) Michael O’Keeffe and Luke Cyphers, New York Daily News - (tie) Bill Briggs, Denver Post
(tie) Juliet Macur, Dallas Morning News
Honorable Mention:
- Bob Duffy, Dan Shaughnessy, Ken Fratus and Michael Smith, Boston Globe
- Blair Kerkhoff, Jason King, Randy Covitz, Mike DeArmond and Kent Pulliam, Kansas City Star
- Lonnie White, Sam Farmer, Alan Abrahamson, Diane Pucin, Justin Heckert, Rob Fernas, Mike Penner, Elliott Teaford, Chris Dufresne, David Wharton and Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times
- Katy Muldoon, Portland Oregonian
- Michael Leahy, Washington Post
